🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@grant_h @mastodonmigration @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews I'm not sure anybody, anywhere has ever had a free democratic election at the level of national (or even provincial) politics.
Political parties undermine and invert democracy. Their systems for generating candidates (e.g. "conventions" in Canada) are explicitly there to make sure that the general public has little to no say in who will "represent" them.
AFAIC if you have one or more political parties you lack democracy.
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